add a blurb about camel offering uniform interface. needs style and

2000-02-28  bertrand  <bertrand@helixcode.com>

	* camel.sgml: add a blurb about camel offering
	uniform interface. needs style and grammar corrections.

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diff --git a/doc/white-papers/mail/camel.sgml b/doc/white-papers/mail/camel.sgml
index c3471059b1..ec8f5f70c6 100644
--- a/doc/white-papers/mail/camel.sgml
+++ b/doc/white-papers/mail/camel.sgml
@@ -52,6 +52,14 @@
     <title>Overview</title>
 
     <para>
+      Camel sees all mail repositories as stores containing 
+      folders. These folders in turn contain the messages
+      the client actually accesses. The use of such a unified
+      interface allows the client applications to be very
+      extensible. Camel includes a provider mechnism which
+      allows the application to be written once, and access
+      the various mail protocols when camel supports them.
+    <para>
       To begin using &Camel;, an application first creates a
       <classname>CamelSession</classname> object. This object is used
       to store application defaults, and to coordinate communication